Consumer awareness and environmental concerns seem to be driving the country’s organic lifestyle trend. Photo credit: USDA
California makes up the biggest slice of the country’s organic market with a stunning $2.2 billion in sales (41 percent of the national total), trouncing second place Washington’s $515 million in sales, according to the latest Organic Survey from the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).
These 10 states alone represent a whopping 78 percent of U.S. organic sales in 2014, according to the NASS.